Month: November 2008

Posted in Sri Lanka

German Restaurant

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, October 2004. By Laurie Ashton When I was five or six,…

Posted in Sri Lanka

La Rambla Restaurante

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, September 2004 By Laurie Ashton As I put the mouthful of…

Zanziba Restaurant

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, August 2004. By Laurie Ashton Zanziba is another recent addition to…

Island Animal Farm

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, August 2004. By Laurie Ashton Immediately upon arriving in Sri Lanka,…

The Mango Tree Restaurant+Lounge+Bar

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, July 2004. By Laurie Ashton The Mango Tree Restaurant is a…

Sakura Japanese Restaurant

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, May 2004. By Laurie Ashton After walking through the gate at…

Posted in Sri Lanka

A Taste of Culture Shock

Published in Travel Sri Lanka magazine, May 2004. By Laurie Ashton Shortly after arriving in Sri Lanka…

Posted in Geekery

First-ever photographs of extrasolar planets

You can read about it at SFSignal. Astronomers captured images of three planets around one star (infared…

Posted in Geekery

Mind Control!

I’ve got one nitpick with the article. Or, at any rate, one right now. We’ll see if…

Posted in Geekery

Write or Die?

<i><a href=”http://writeordie.com/” target=”_blank”>Write or Die</a></i> is a software application that could be useful to you if you’re…

Posted in Media

Fahim Farook inspired by Douglas Adams

Or <a href=”http://mrsgiggles.com/pod/index.html” target=”_blank”>so the review goes</a>… Disclaimer: <a href=”http://farook.org” target=”_blank”>Fahim Farook</a> is my husband and I…

Posted in Geekery

Bionic Eyes

It’s called Bionic Eyes, but really, it doesn’t seem to me at all the same as the…

Posted in Geekery

Converting pages to posts, or vice versa, in WordPress

There’s a handy dandy little plugin for WordPress that can convert pages to posts, or posts to…

Posted in Geekery

Twitter, Twittering, and Tweets

<a href=”https://twitter.com/LMAshton” target=”_blank”>I’m twittering now</a>. Have been for a while. It’s kinda fun and interesting. 🙂 <a…

Posted in Geekery

Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?

Nope, it ain’t, and that there were many claims that <a href=”http://www.symantec.com/norton/internet-security” target=”_blank”>NIS 2009</a> was not as…

Posted in Geekery

Changing of the anti-virus guard

Yep, it’s true. I’ve been sucked into Fahim’s perpetual cycle of switching anti-virus every few months, only…